Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-24
Pous People Who Are Punctilious About
Small Things
But Neglect The Weightier Matters OF
Duty.
Pertinent Questions OF the Present and
Future Life.
TROUBLE ABOUT SMALL THINGS.

LAOtbLn ADoCl NV
BROOKLYN. Dec. 11.-To-night the
Ksv. T.. De Witt Talmage, ID,
preached at the Tabernacle, this city,
on TOO Much Ado About Small
Taings." His text was:
"Ye bind guides, which strain at a gnat,
aaa swal ,oS 3 camel " Matthew 30: "a.
The eloquent preacher said:
A proverb 10 compact wisdom,
knowledge in chunks, a library in y
sentence, tho electricity OF many
clouds discharged in n bolt, a river
pat through . mill race. When Christ
quotes tho proverb OF the text, He
t 0 set forth the ludicrous behav
Tor Of those who make a great buster
absut SIN all sins and have no apprccia-
Gsa of great ones
Ia NV text n small insect and a large
A~uadruped are brought into COMPARE
sop-a gnat and a camel. You have in
museum or Oh the desert seen the
latter, q great awkward, sprawling
cre&ture, with back two stories high,
aaa stomsch having u collection of
reservoirs for desert travel, an animal
furbida N 10 the Jews as food, and in
many litcratures entitled "the ship OF
the desert The gnat spoken OF in
the text Is in grub form. l. is born in
pool or pond, after a few weeks be-
"a chry sails, and then after a few
d.,s becomes the gn9t rs we recognize
1t. hui the insect spoken Of IN the text
is in il, very smallest shape, and il yet
inh.bits he water-for my text il a
mispris, and ought 10 read 'strain out
arsat.'
SWALLOWING A CAMEL.
NV text shows the price OF inconsist-
,nces. A man after long observation
has formed the suspicion that IN a cup
Of water he is about to drink there j.
o grub, or the g%randparent Oh a gnat.
lie goes and gets u sieve or strainer.
Mr takes the water and pours 1t
through the sieve in the broad light.
Gle says Il would rather do anything
almost than to drink this water until
this larva be e%xtirpated." This water
brought under inquisition. The ex
nerinent is successful. The water
rushes through the sieve and leaves
against the side Of the sieve the grub
or enat. Then the man carefully re-
moves the Insect and drinks the water
In placldity. But going out one day,
I'D hungry, Re devours "a ship OF
ho desert" tho camel, which tLo Jews
Ns1s forbidden to eat Tho gastron-
suncY has no computations OF con-
scisacc. He suffers from no indiges-
ton. He puts the lower jaw under
the cancels forefoot. and his upper
Jaw over the hump Of the camel's back
and gives one swallow and the drome-
Diary disappears forever. He strained
at a graf, he Swallowed a camel.
n SARCASM OF II TEXT.
While Christ's audience were YET
smiling nj the appositeness aud wit o.
his illus,ration-for smile they did il
church. unless they were too stupid t,
understand the hyperbole- Christ prac
tic4ly said to them, That is You
psnctilious about small things; reck
less about af irs Of great magnitude
No snhiect ever wlthered under a sur
gems knife more bitterly than did th'
Pharisees und,r Cbrist's scalpel q
truth. AZ an anatomist viii take
huoAAn body to pieces and put then
urder y microscope for examination
40 Csrist finds his way to the heart o
the dead Pnarisce and cuts it out an
puts it under the glass Of inspectio
for All generations to examine. Thos
PLarisees thought that Christ woul
a alter them and compliment them. IN
how they must have writhed under III
rcd-hot words rs he said. Eye fools, y
wbited s~eeulcbres, ye blind guides
which strain out Il gnat and swallow
cAmsl."
There are in u day great mar
anss strained out and n great man
samels swallowed, and il is the obj,
81 this sarmon to sketch a few Lersol
who are extensively engaged in tn
business.
PREACHHRs PHOTOGRAPHED IN TT
PARAGRAPH.
First: | remark, that all those mi
istel . Of the Gospel are Photographic
in the text who are very scrupulOt
about the conventionalities at reiigiO
but DWt no particular stress upon ms
ters Of vast Importance. Church sc
Q ought tn b. grave and solem
There il no room for ~frivolity in reli
isus cOnvocation. But there are illu